{"id":62074,"date":"2024-02-22T02:55:48","date_gmt":"2024-02-21T17:55:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/feb\/21\/cost-of-raising-children-in-china-is-second-highest-in-the-world-think-tank-reveals"},"modified":"2024-02-22T02:55:48","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T17:55:48","slug":"cost-of-raising-children-in-china-second-highest-in-world-thinktank-reveals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=62074","title":{"rendered":"Cost of raising children in China second-highest in world, thinktank reveals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Expense and challenge of balancing work and family life key factors in declining birthrate and shrinking population<\/p>\n<p>China is one of the most expensive places in the world to raise a child, outstripping the US and Japan in relative terms, a prominent Chinese thinktank has said.<\/p>\n<p>A report released on Wednesday by the Beijing-based YuWa Population Research Institute found that the average cost of raising a child in China until the age of 18 is 538,000 yuan (\u00a359,275) \u2013 more than 6.3 times as high as its GDP per capita, compared with 4.11 times in the US or 4.26 times in Japan.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/feb\/21\/cost-of-raising-children-in-china-is-second-highest-in-the-world-think-tank-reveals\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Expense and challenge of balancing work and family life key factors in declining birthrate and shrinking populationChina is one of the most expensive places in the world to raise a child, outstripping the US and Japan in relative terms, a prominent Chi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3580,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,706,281,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-population","category-women","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3580"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62074"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62075,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62074\/revisions\/62075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}